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Koolhaas, Rem & Bruce Mau.

1 Grey Wide Large ISO Saucony Sz Guide 9 Nvy Men's S20416 $950.00

Item Number: 741

New York: Monacelli Press, 1995.

First edition. Thick octavo, original silver boards with yellow lettering to the spine and frontispiece. Issued without a dust jacket. Signed by both Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. In very good condition that shows light wear.

Koolhaas was awarded the 2000 Pritzker Prize and is internationally acclaimed for his design of the Seattle Public Library. He "is one of the few high-style architects today His inventive use of inexpensive industrial-grade materials and elegantly improvisational detailing enlivens his subversive twists on familiar modernist forms" (New York Times). S, M, L, XL is possibly the most renowned architectural monograph of the last twenty years - a vividly illustrated record of the copious work of Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. "A surrealist pictorial wonderland" (New Yorker).

Engraved bust portrait of Albert Einstein by Hermann Struck. Signed at lower right by Albert Einstein and the artist Hermann Struck. This was the artist’s proof and is cited by him writing (“proof”) on the lower right, in pencil, next to Einstein’s signature. The engraving measures 7 inches by 10.5 inches. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 20 inches. Rare and desirable.

Black and White photograph taken by Pach Brothers of architect Marcel Breuer. Boldly signed by Breuer on the lower left. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.8 inches by 21 inches. Rare and desirable.

First edition of Wharton’s classic treatise on “Italian garden-magic.” Quarto, original dark green cloth, top edge gilt. With 45 full-page plates, including 26 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (15 in color), seven in-text and 19 black-and-white photographic illustrations. In very good condition with some light rubbing and wear. A nice example.

First edition of Lurie’s classic work about the clothes we wear and what they say about us. Quarto, original cloth. Illustrated by Doris Palca. Signed by the author on the half-title page with the added words, “For thousands of years, human beings have communicated with one another in the language of dress. Alison Lurie.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ray Cruz. A unique example.